The Smiler [4K] 2022 Front Seat POV - Alton Towers Resort
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ย. 2022
- Smile. Always.
We bring you an exclusive front seat POV of The Smiler, the world's only fourteen looping roller coaster.
Filmed with permission from Alton Towers Resort in a controlled environment.
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Thanks for watching! What's your favourite inversion on The Smiler? There's 14 to choose from!
Definitely not the 11th too rough now ! Got to be the 2nd airtime hill daim sends you flying.
2nd, 3rd and 13th absolutely
1st, 13th, 14th!
Has to be the C serpant roll
@@LightningPitch2001 Yes love that!
I love how any rollercoaster just looks relaxing and smooth on pov videos and irl it is the opposite
Edit: for context I wrote this a year ago when I had a deathly fear of rollercoasters (love them now) and my friends forced me to go on it
Lol so true
Ikr
I watched a pov of galactica and i thought this would be really cool to ride
It was absolutely crazy but i went on it twice. It was how i got over the fear of roller coasters
@@zedgd5617 galactica is very smooth but it doesn't look as intense as it really is lol, especially the last turn everytime i ride i always grab onto the restraints lol
This was the smoothest coaster i've ever been on by a long, long way!
From what i've hard, coasters get rougher the further back on the train you are. Maybe you were on one of the last 2 carriages.
I rode this, thought it was amazing and so smooth! (I was on the 2nd row). I then rode Nemesis (also on the 2nd row) and thought it was really rough! Nemesis was still really fun, but much more noticeably rougher than The Smiler. I hope Nemesis is smooth in 2024 after the retrack! Nemesis is fun, but a bit rough in places. The smiler was so perfectly smooth when i went on it!
@@zedgd5617 same, now I can do all the coasters no problem.
Kind of ironic and counter intuitive, but that first barrel roll in the dark at like 5 seconds after the ride starts is really comforting and gives you confidence that everything is going to be ok. It's hard to see it on camera, but when you're on this ride and you feel it, it's strangely comforting. At least it was for me, anyway. It's like after the roll you register what just happened and it was fine so you're like "ok, i just went upside down, in the dark, and everything is fine! Bring it on!"
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I know that feeling! I got it the first time I went on a fast roller-coaster, right before the big drop.
I agree this is the same as what happened with me. I was worried about what the loops feel like but after that I was fine
@@WillLewis Inversions.
EXACTLY
This is probably the only roller coaster i’m scared of, not because of the ride but because of the theming. Just listening to that creepy voice laughing in your face while upside down and staring into a weird face gives me the chills
You should probably also be scared because 16 people got severely injured on this ride in 2015. The ride operators were too dumb and inconsiderate to check if the test cart came back, causing the passengers to crash straight into it!
@@peecrackers3778 yeah i heard that they added a fifth cart and they didnt know and it crashed into a live one
@@peecrackers3778you shouldn't be scared. the accident was entirely human error and afterwards, the safety features of the ride were enhanced to ensure that nothing like that would ever happen again. the smiler is probably the safest ride at alton towers, so there's no reason to be scared.
@@JonstoneMCF exactly
Dude in the smiler crash video right as they crashed there was evil laughter from the smiler
Went on this today and overcame my fear of rollercoasters! It is not even close to how smooth it is in the video but it is a great ride and really throws you through a loop.
Lucky!!! im in the USA and its my dream to ride this coaster one day!!
@@sunriseirlI’ve only been one one coaster in my life so I can’t speak for myself, but my friend, who absolutely loves coasters, says this is the best one she’s ever been on!
actually it throws you through 14
Impressive that you overcame your roller coaster fear on the only ride in the park that has actually crippled people
Fair do's to you!! What a huge achievement 🥳 I always try to get people to try them out as I LOVE theme parks!! It was closed when I went so I didn't get to ride. 🥺 went on Oblivion 6 times though 😏😆
I dont get scared of rollercoasters much anymore, but this rides theme and music gets my heart pumping.
Didnt ask!
@@JohnEdwardMillerGosh nobody asked for you’re pfp. Take it away 😣
It’s my favourite coaster I’ve ever been on. Went on it in June for the first time, didn’t expect the corkscrew at the start
not tryna be rude but lol, its a heartline roll
@@TheMidlandsTrident 😂
Heartline lol, it caught me off guard so much when I went on
@@TheMidlandsTrident i’ve never been on this ride can u explain wdym by corkscrew or heart line
@@champagnemami4056 I know I am not Thorpe park enthusiast put a heartline roll is so much smallar and compact than a corkscrews massive drawn out loop.
I've never noticed this before, even when I've been on the ride, but at 01:34 the track ahead of you kinda looks like a smiley face, 🙂 (if you pause it at the right time)
It does I just noticed that.
That’s literally the entire point of the ride
@@bitmelody2616I'm sure it's not "literally" the entire point of the ride, but nice try
@@alanboiii yes it actually is. The ride is designed to look like a smile, that's a very very major part of its design
You've only just noticed this???
I love that when your upside down you can see all the miserable people queuing below you 😂
I never que.
@@danielledewitt1 oooo soz. your hard.
@@Deathwish026 Being disabled I get the wristband.
@@danielledewitt1 when i went rap queue was 70m
@@henryattewell Yet I never que. i knew some wouldn’t believe me.
By far my favourite rollercoaster at Alton Towers, it is one that you can go on endless times and never get bored of because it actually has life just like the original nemesis.
What do you mean original nemesis?
@@danielledewitt1 its getting rebuilt rn!
@@prepareforrair Wrong, it’s just getting retracked. Layout etc will stay the same.
@@danielledewitt1 yeah thats what i mean!! just worded it wrong haha
@@prepareforrair Then you should have just put retracked in stead of lying and saying rebuilt.
Honestly it was never the large amount of inversions or the speed or anything like that that made me always freaked out to ride smiler it’s that vertical lift hill at 2:04 and I swear seeing the car in front of me crest over and start descending was one of the greatest feelings of comfort I think I’ve ever gotten
At thorpe park (also merlin) they have a thing called saw the ride, im pretty short so when it went straight i felt like i was slipping out of my seat
@@BitOddInnitBruvthat happens to everyone, it’s called airtime
That was the worst part for me!
To anyone nervous about going on this ride, don’t be it’s so fun! the drops aren’t as steep as those on oblivion (or 13 in my opinion) and it’s not as fast as Rita. To prepare myself for this ride I just went on 13, Rita and galactica and loved all 3 so I went on smiler and to no surprise it’s my new favourite ride!
I’d be nervous to ride this ride just because 16 people got hurt from crashing into a test cart that they didn’t even check to see if it made it back safe and overidded the blocked for them to go. But if ever since then employees cannot just override it that easily anymore there’s precautions now after but I would never ride a ride that had an incident
@@sylviajacobs31same I’m terrified for that reason but 13 is my fave ride of all time
@@sylviajacobs31 Since then it's become arguably the safest rollercoaster in the country.
I'd love to ride this roller coasters I went to alton towers the other day but I ain't waiting over a hour for a ride
Every time I rewatch this I get goosebumps at this ride's dispatch sequence, it's so well thought out I love it.
Its so good. The dispatch is the best part of the ride (along with the 2nd airtime hill ofc)
hi hani
I love how the end of the ride is so smooth but in real life it’s so head banging
This looks like something you make in RCT2 when you are bored and want to start tourting your guests
And then after every person rides it, they throw up
@N3M3S1S Z funny you should mention throwing up.
I was in the queue waiting to get on Smiler yesterday and they had to shut it down for "emergency cleaning"
The whole queue line erupted with cheers. Thats the first time I've ever heard a cheer for a message saying a ride had to close 😂😂
Rode this for the first time yesterday, twice in the day and once in the dark. It’s an amazing ride but even better at night.
Front row smooth and the 4th row a spine breaker
I honestly don't think I've felt a difference in smoothness
@@sporech9374 Did front row yesterday and was incredibly rough! No row is smooth aha
tell me about it 🙄
I really agree. It's a really randomly rough coaster - I've generally had smoother rides on the back than the front which is in contrast to what everyone else seems to say.
3 out of 4 rides last week were smooooooooth, but I was unlucky enough to be in rows 3 and 4 every damn time lol
Went on this yesterday and have to say it most definitely lives up to the hype! The ride was shut for two hours on the final day of the season yesterday and we waited and waited for it to reopen before we left! Even better in the dark too!
nightrides are always the best!!
@@sunriseirl yes have found that. Saw, Colossus, stealth at TP all much better at night
I went on the Smiler about a month ago. I still think Nemesis is better but this is easily my second favourite coaster I've ever been on. It still gives me chills just thinking about it!
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Sad they got rid of Nemesis second coaster I had ever been on
@@nonilogical4752 Nemesis is coming back, it will only be gone for about a year. They are just replacing the tracks so it lasts longer and stays reliable.
@@nonilogical4752 They are only retracking it. Why are you telling lies about nemesis?
Oh wow mate tell us more u boring sad sack of dog piss
We went to Alton towers a few days after the summer holidays in early September. It was so quiet we were one of the only ones on the ride, there was no line to wait in or anything. It was amazing, I don’t think I’ll ever experience a theme park so quiet again!
For some reason, I always expect vertical lift hills to be followed by really steep drops.
I think the fact that I've been on Saw: The Ride at Thorpe Park may have something to do with that.
Indeed - this bucks the trend of most Gerstlauers with vertical lifts.
It’s been exactly 1 year and 1 day since I’ve been on this ride! Absolutely great!
The flip at the beginning was so unexpected but 10/10 ride!
This ride is crazy!! I was literally petrified to go on it and absolutely adamant i wasn't going to go on, but it was the first one we went on after being persuaded, very nearly had a panic attack and got off before it started but so glad I pushed through it as it was amazing! Even went on it again before we left. Absolutely fantastic ride 🙏 (apart from that vertical lift, that was honestly petrifying 😢)
I bet you didn’t know two people had to get there legs amputated after being in the ride before going in it 😭
It's a beast of a roller coaster, talking from experience.
If you go Alton towers make sure you go on every coaster. Fun asf
Did it for the first time on sunday and Its easily my new No.1!!!!!
My fav elements are the 1st inversion in the dark, the 2nd airtime hill and the vertical-lift!
Glad you enjoyed!
@@AttractionSource Yup!
Yes the 2nd airtime Hills the best bit 100^
Rode the smiler 5 times yesterday! This ride is absolute nuts
I love the sound it makes going round
I Love How Their Is A Calm Octonauts Ride And Then Theirs This😂😂😂
This is my fav ride at Alton Towers!
I went on Rita, THI3TEEN, Galactica, The Wickerman, Oblivion and the Smiler Yesterday and this is my fav
This POV is perfect for me recreating the smiler in games.
Absolutely Loved This Ride
Technical Stuff - I've only been on Smiler, Rita and Thirteen at Alton Towers and Smiler was by far the most fun. The start section was crazy and there are a lot of sections in this ride that are absolutely insane that you don't really notice on the POV videos for example the airtime hill in the 2nd half blew me away even though when I saw it on videos I didn't really even notice it. All of the loops felt smooth in my opinion and even though I had a back row seat it wasn't painful or uncomfortable at all. In my opinion the front row of any ride is overrated and I don't mind where I sit.
Ride Experience - Even though it is one of the scariest rides in the world I wouldn't say it is as scary as some Thrill rides like the reverse bungee and skyscraper that I have both been on However it is definitely the most fun I've ever had on a ride. The whole time I was on the ride I had my arms up in the air and I couldn't stop Smiling and Laughing for some reason and the Adrenaline Rush you get from it all is out of this world I remember at the end of the 1st half I was shaking and laughing so much just before we were about to go up the vertical hill and when I got to the end I was blown away by the whole experience and wanted to do it all again however there was a big queue and I needed to do other rides that day.
Ratting - 10/10 - Anyone who is a Thrill Seeker needs to experience The Smiler in my opinion and the only advice I can give to anyone who is wanting to ride it but is nervous to get on the ride is to just do it anyway. You only live once so If there is any part of you that wants to ride it you should 100% go for it even If you are scared.
Tip To Thrill Seekers - Put your hands in the air the whole time you ride it especially on the upside-down parts because you will get way more of a thrill when you constantly go upside-down.
Great review!
Make sure to try Nemesis and Wickerman the next time you go. They really are unique and amazing ride experiences!
@@TheOfficialSmudgy Will do next time I'm there. The Queues were so big though so I sadly didn't have time for Nemesis and even if I had done Nemesis I wouldn't have been able to do Rita and Theteteen and I really wanted to do Rita that day aswell.
Nemesis needs to be the first ride you go on next time, it has a re track coming up and people are specualting it will start when the park closes this season so you might have to wait a while thats being done as it may last a while possibly a season or 2(or maybe longer)but nemsis is a must ride, its my number 2 after smiler
Try Oblivion and remember….
*DON’T LOOK DOWN*
My favorite theme of any ride in existence to be honest.
Great video! Stayed at Alton Towers for a couple days sometime this month. I went on all the rollercoasters! The Smiler was one of my favourites. It suited me even more cause I have a thing where I can't scream on rollercoasters. I just laugh hysterically 😅
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank the stars! another person who laughs hysterically. I thought I was the only one.
@@adamtrue7691 a lot more common than you think! People found out that laughing on rollercoasters has the same stress relieving affects that screaming does!
No way! You too? I also laugh hysterically at roller-coasters!
@@stargirlooo you're not alone! My dad and brother do it also.
I just went on this for the first time today 😂ive been to alton towers plenty of times but never wanted to go on this but today was the day and its now my favorite ride at alton towers 😁
I cannot wait to go on the smiler in about 2 months with my friend - we have been dreaming about it!!! Great video!
Hope you enjoy it!
@@AttractionSource I definitley will - thanks!
absolutley love smiler, its my 3rd favourite ride in the UK, even tho the que is usually very long(90 minutes when i rode)it didn't feel like i was in it for that long as it was cool just watching the trains go round and watching peoples reactions while they were riding
Ok
what are your 1st and 2nd favourites?
@@Glitchesftw Nemesis 1st and SAW 2nd!
@@weplayvrgames 🤣🤣
To anyone going on this ride soon and may be scared, I promise you it is a really good ride. I (had) a fear of roller coasters untill i went to alton towers today i absolutely loved the smiler before even seeing it i forced myself to go on and to me it was so exciting and not scary at all , (the scary bit is when you are going on the vertical lift hill at the back of the train😂😂)
Scary for the 16 people that got hurt by negligent staff and suffered major injuries. 2 of them lost one of their legs
@@sylviajacobs31 I am fully aware of that , but thats not what I'm talking about here. Of course the girl who lost her leg would be terrified and my hearts go out to all that got injured from that horrible accident.
oh my god yes, i went on the first of April and got back row. honestly petrified at vertical lift because it feels like you’re going to roll back but honestly that just adds to the suspense! 10/10 coaster though
Been on this ride countless times over the years and it's still never been topped for me.
2:35 look at the line omg
That take hours till its your turn besides the entrance is very long to enter
This pov makes it look so smooth lol
That’s because it is
I when my on the smiler for the first time yesterday, (I’m pretty sure when this video was shot) and loved it, mental
Glad you enjoyed!
The music during our 1 hour 45 minute wait time was psychopathic bro. I chipped my tooth on the metal railing on the inside queue aswell lol.
I had to wait 3 hours in the line for this ride and i seriously would do it again 😂
One of the best coasters on planet earth.
From what I've been on, I would agree 👍
So true
Its nice you like my Rollercoaster
Went here about a month ago and had never rode a rollercoaster before. I decided to ride this and i loved it.
Im going to alton towers in September. Cant wait to ride this thing!
Went on this for the first time yesterday and after spending the queue, load up & first lift hill terrified. I ended up loving every second of it, my second favourite ride in the park (after Wicker Man)
Glad you enjoyed!
Wicker Man is pretty awesome, but for me, nothing beats Nemesis. Still the best ride in the park with Smiler a close second.
I went there yesterday for scarefest, the line was really long, I waited 3 hours in line for it but it was so worth it
Can't wait to get back on this on opening day!
That looked amazing!
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Im horrified of roller coasters and i get panic attacks from sounds of loud crowds of people so this ride is quite literally my version of hell LMAO
Am i the only one who hates going on rides and having that one petson going "WoOooO0oo" at every fast bit/inversion
Great video !!!
Awesome journey !!!
I passed out on this so many times 😭
Poor kid then you should not go on such a ride because of the music and laughter and if you passed out so many times just dont ride smiler its a hardcore coaster
That looks so SMOOTH!
Warning: back rows will not be smooth. Still great ride tho
went on for the first time today with my older brother, we queued for 40 minutes and our parents thought i would chicken out lol! but i did it and i loved it!! my new fav ride at alton towers (been on all but oblivion)
Same but the only ride I've not been on is nemesis
@@jamieandrewsyddall You're missing out
@@BedtimeStoriesChannelI wanna go on it but re track will stop me going on it tho ik I'll enjoy Galactica, wickerman, smiler etc
The music haunts my dreams
Lovely!
Thirteen caught me off guard I absolutely shut myself😁
the music on the ride makes it even creepier
Thats why the smiler is a scary coaster because of the music and the laughter haha haha haha and i think you need a correction
The smiler nemesis and Rita In my opinion are the best, I’m yet to go on oblivion
rode this for the first time today and absolutely loved it but didnt expect so many lopps! also the first time i had ever been on any rides bigger than the blade one....
I mean it has 14 inversions XD
"How many inversions do we want?"
"...well, YES."
Been there today was so fun!!!
Really cool design and aesthetic!
Very unique and well themed...long ride length too
the only time i want to go to the uk now wowww this looks awesome i have to go on this someday
We went on it for the 1st time yesterday. Loved it! I think the fact that the 2 cars are in such good sync is a thing you notice when queuing but then don't even notice it when you're on it!
Of course you don’t, you’re mainly focused on…
Keep going…
*14* inversions
Glad you enjoyed!
Yeah except running two carts at once just for the sake of raking in as much business as possible is exactly what caused the atrocious accident that occurred on this awesome coaster some years ago causing two young women to lose their legs and a young man in the same row as them to have permanent knee injuries as well as whatever other injuries were caused to passengers in the rows behind them. I can see they’ve installed more cameras and they do run one less cart than they used to all at once but you’d think they’d move onto the US’s safety protocol where a park can never, ever, for any reason, actively run more than a single cart on a coaster at one time. But nah, they just removed one of three simultaneously running carts, added a few more cameras, and added a slightly longer sensor/timer for detecting whether the cart ahead has made its return or not, to… oh idk, maybe prevent the exact same tragedy from happening again.
I have the utmost respect for roller coasters as well as the great people who design them. What I don’t respect are the corporations who purchase them and the unaware careless workers who run these serious machines
@@Healthydistrust Liar. Staff overriding the system caused it to crash. Typical lying gp.
@@Healthydistrust They almost always run more than one train on United States rollercoasters at high-quality parks.
A block zone is a section of track which only one train is allowed to occupy at any time. Between each block zone is a method of bringing trains to a complete stop, usually a mid-course break run (like on Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit (the trains are small but the mid-course break runs allow it to run many trains and have a high capacity in spite of this)) but sometimes a launch (like the second launch on VelociCoaster at Islands of Adventure).
Rollercoasters are not like water slides, where they have multiple trains in the same block zone and count on the fact that the other train is too far ahead to crash, and the fact that it's going so slowly that it's not too dangerous when they crash.
The Smiler accident was caused by maintenance adding a fifth train to the track without telling ride operators. They sent the train around the track with no passengers in it, and it valleyed due to high winds. Then, ride operators sent a train with passengers. The computer system told them that there was still a train in the first block zone, and refused to send the train down. Ride operators saw that there were three trains in the station and one on the lift hill, so they assumed the computer system was wrong not knowing there was a 5th train on the track, and didn't bother checking to see whether there was anything else in the block zone (which is probably a serious violation of safety protocols and is the main cause of the accident), manually overrode the safety system, and sent the train out through the course. Then, it crashed into the valleyed train.
Best rollercoaster ever
Whoop!
I love this ride
Us too!
I went on this today, its madness! but its a must-do if you visit Alton Towers
Went on today for the first time. Epic ride if you don’t like drops and you like loops. The second half is really bumpy tho. Would defo ride again
Inversions.
Bro the g force was sick I love this ride
my best friend wants to go to alton towers for her birthday but i’m TERRIBLE on rollercoasters and this would be 10 times worse in reality - thank you for the help though 😭😂😊
this ride gives me SO MANY happy tism stims (pretty sure its a special interest at this point ;-; ). so sad that videos dont do this ride nearly as much justice
A cobra roll and a batwing intertwined. The single most Gerstlauer thing of all time.
Ive been on my first ever rollercoaster today and ofcourse i had to make it the smiler as my first
best coaster there in my opinion. soooo much airtime
Love this 😍
Thank you!
Thank you lil guy that you like my coaster
I love roller coasters they are really cool 😎 ❤❤❤
Yeah I love this ride
I’ve been on the smiler at Alton towers ITS SO FUN
I need to ride this, looks awesome 🙂
I rode this with my arms in the air the whole time, they were throbbing afterwards from being smashed against the restraint. If the smiler had mack rides style lapbars it would easily be my number one. Still it’s my number 2 behind the rusty-white legend which sits at the other side of the park
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Nemesis track was never rusty, they painted it to look that way.
@@danielledewitt1 Why should I have to say the “painted rusty white legend”? I know it’s painted, I just don’t feel like I need to point out the obvious.
@@bennickss Because that is what it was.
I cannot deal with lap bars personally. Never had any issues with over-the-shoulder restraints and they feel much safer (i know lap bars are safe)
Best one there. Second row both times
this looks awesome!!! i wish i could go on it
best coaster ever tbh
Thanks that you like my coaster
wonderful POV, its a bucket list ride for me but i really hope they clean this thing up a bit
Thank you!
Went on this today and was my fav ride. Not something I wanted to go on at first, but I went on Oblivion before this and it bored me. I did this and actually felt a thrill. We then went back and did other rides again like Wickerman , Th13rteen and Rita, and found them boring 2nd time around. Going back on this the 2nd time though still had enjoyment
I was laughing this whole way around
Thats it thats good keep laughing and smile for me
My favourite roller coaster in England
I love the second half
i have been on this and waited like 5 hours in the line and when we finallly got to the end it turned out my sis was too short to go on so she got a free badge thing where whenever u press it it plays the music hahahahaahahha and the laugh still creeps me to this day. i dont actually live in EnglandI went there for holidays i live in Ireland but thats the best rollercoaster ive went on
Best ride ever
I love the smiler so much! The music, theme and everything! I went on it twice yesterday ahhh it’s so good! (I’m 13 so if ur an adult then you’ll be fine!)
This ride haunts my nightmares
this looks like a real good one
I might be on my own here, but the best part is the bunny hop at 2:42
Waited an hour before watch the pov to make it feel more realistic